U.K. Politics: Nadhim Zahawi sacked by Rishi Sunak

[heppolo]

It’s never going to happen!

Current soundtrack in BoJo's head.

[Thriller]

Boris Johnson has sent an unsigned letter to European council president Donald Tusk requesting a further Brexit delay beyond 31 October – accompanied by a signed one arguing against it.

The prime minister sent a total of three letters: an unsigned photocopy of the request he was obliged to send under the Benn Act, an explanatory letter from the UK’s ambassador to the EU and a personal letter explaining why Downing Street did not want an extension.

The late-night letters followed another bruising day in the Commons for Johnson, where MPs voted by 322 to 306 to withhold approval of his EU exit deal, forcing him to write to Brussels by 11pm on Saturday to request an extension until 31 January 2020.

It’s never going to happen!

[Kpop]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...twin-amendment

Well that letter is getting sent to the EU.

[Kpop]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...twin-amendment

[heppolo]

cause Boris is such a career politician, he would cling on to power

[Kpop]

It's gonna be a No Deal scenario, I guess. Boris attempts to sell the kind of deal Theresa had described previously as the one "no British PM would ever accept".

Boris also said the same thing last November. And yet here we are.

[heppolo]

It's gonna be a No Deal scenario, I guess. Boris attempts to sell the kind of deal Theresa had described previously as the one "no British PM would ever accept".

[Thriller]

It’s being slated as being worse than May’s.

I don’t fully understand the Ireland stuff if I’m honest.

[beredy]

Apparently a new deal is on the table. Next stop - getting ratified by UK Parliament and EU council.

[heppolo]

oh well, double trouble across the pond

[Wayne]

The Prime Minister has been reported for misconduct in public office. On the other side of the world, the US President is being investigated with a view to impeaching him.

We live in extraordinary times.

[Thriller]

Civil unrest seems to be when rather than if.

[Kpop]

Well, has there even been a more disastrous start of a PM tenure in history? Not sure.

Not sure if we've seen the worst yet:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9121201.html

[heppolo]

Well, has there even been a more disastrous start of a PM tenure in history? Not sure.

[Spartan]

UK politics are a damn mess at the moment.

[KEY9481]

I am honestly at loss for words to describe this mess.

[Thriller]

So if it was unlawful, will he face criminal charges?

The “Joris Bonson” leave voter on TV today was a perfect example of why the referendum should never have happened

[Rihab]

Time to reopen parliament, then resign.

[beredy]

I hope EU kicks UK without a deal and finishes this saga. I never thought UK politics would ever turn into a bunch of headless chickens running around. Quite an amazing feat.

[Kpop]

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019...rules-prorogue

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...a9117696.html#

Well done to the eleven Supreme Court Judges who have unanimously ruled that our deceitful Prime Minister unlawfully shutdown Partliament

[Shadowplay]

ROTFL... Groundhog Day..,

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...23948260983946

[heppolo]

It seems BoJo lied to the Queen

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9100206.html

BoJo casual speeches are so pompous and overblown with hyperbole, the man himself might not completely understand what he is talking about (especially if he was trying to impress the Queen), so ...

[Kpop]

It seems BoJo lied to the Queen

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9100206.html

[Kpop]

What exactly makes it "corruptly" won?

Vote Leave was fined £61,000 after the electoral watchdog ruled that it broke electoral law.

But was not possible to overturn the referendum result because the referendum was only advisory. Had the result been legally binding it would have been quashed.

[clh_hilary]

That's so true... media decide who we are going to like and who not (politically) without even giving them the benefit of the doubt. I could name some examples but it is beyond the point.

From a legal point of view there are several ways forward, most of each would annul the previous referendum (such as a new referendum). Ethically however there is no way that the UK could remain in the EU without hurting its democratic traditions. The will of the people was expressed freely and fairly once (yes, one could argue that politicians lied but show me when they don't lie? that means nothing) and since then we had a premier who was supposedly trying to achieve Brexit while never believing in it and now a parliament which is supposedly trying to achieve a Brexit with a deal when they clearly believe that there should be no Brexit at all. If another referendum does take place and Brexit is rejected, then the real question would be how much of the shift in votes was due to people essentially being blackmailed by the anti-Brexit rhetoric of post-Brexit doom (unproven) thus making the second decision one taken under distress plus the question of why the next referendum should be binding and not just attempt to overturn it again since that would have happened to the first one. Tough questions...

I'm not saying there should be a second referendum, but if the choices on the second referendum are 1. take May's deal; or 2. no deal, then it's not going to harm the integrity of the first one.

That'd also avoid people asking for a third referendum on the basis of a second referendum being held. Though the optics would be bad.

I believe the best way to deal with it democratically would be to have a general election, although I believe with a GE there should also be an extension.